The Selfish Gene book, 30th anniversary discussion

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The Selfish Gene book, 30th anniversary discussion

#1  Postby Kiwi » Mar 17, 2010 3:20 am

This is in the archives of RD.net, but is rather buried and the discussion is so interesting, I thought I would draw your attention to it here. There is an mp3 for downloading.
http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/selfish ... Gene30.mp3 (1 hr 22 min)

http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/selfish ... index.html

Speakers

Daniel C Dennett (Tufts)
Author of Darwin's Dangerous Idea; Freedom Evolves; Breaking the Spell
'The view from Dawkins' mountain'

Sir John Krebs, FRS (Zoology, Oxford)
'From intellectual plumbing to arms races'

Matt Ridley
Author of The Red Queen; The Origins of Virtue; Genome
'Selfish DNA and the junk in the genome'

Ian McEwan
Booker Prize winner and author of Enduring Love; Amsterdam; Saturday
'Science writing: Towards a literary tradition?'

Richard Dawkins, FRS (Oxford)
Author of The Selfish Gene; The Blind Watchmaker; The Ancestor's Tale.
'Afterword'

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